Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
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In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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I like to work in the morning, usually from 7-12, and still always hope to do more later. At the end of a book, I just work most of the time, but in general, I like to be working nice and early.
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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
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A critic recently denounced my Victor Hugo, declaring the treatment belonged not to sculpture but to music. He said it reminded him of a symphony by Beethoven. Heaven grant that he spoke the truth!
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Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
